config files in python

[sandipm]

Hi,
 In my application, I have some configurable information which is used
by different processes. currently I have stored configration in a
conf.py file as name=value pairs, and I am importing conf.py file to
use this variable. it works well

import conf
print conf.SomeVariable

but if I need to change some configuration parameteres,  it would need
me to restart processes.

I want to store this data in some conf file (txt) and would like to
use it same way as I am using these variables as defined in py
files.

one solution I can think of is writing data as a dictionary into conf
file. and then by reading data, apply eval on that data. and update
local dict? but this is not a good solution....

any pointers?

Sandip